16-letter words containing a, g, l, i, t, e
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
- federal register — a bulletin, published daily by the U.S. federal government, containing the schedule of hearings before Congressional and federal agency committees, together with orders, proclamations, etc., released by the executive branch of the government.
- feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
- filter cigarette — a cigarette with a filter tip
- fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
- fit like a glove — fit perfectly
- flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
- foreign national — citizen of another country
- freight terminal — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
- galactic cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- galactic equator — the great circle on the celestial sphere that is equidistant from the galactic poles, being inclined approximately 62° to the celestial equator and lying about one degree north of the center line of the Milky Way.
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
- gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
- gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
- general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
- general election — U.S. Politics. a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in which voters elect officeholders. Compare primary (def 15). a state or national election, as opposed to a local election.
- general electric — (company) (GE) A US company that manufactured computers from 1956 until 1970, when it sold its computer division to Honeywell and left the computer business. Notable GE computers were the GE-265, which supported the Dartmouth Time-sharing System (DTSS), and the GE-645 used for Multics development. See also GCOS. Not to be confused with the General Electric Company (GEC) in the UK (where FOLDOC's first seeds were sown).
- general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
- general practice — family practice.
- general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
- generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
- generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
- genetic material — material that stores genetic information; DNA
- gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
- geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
- glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- golden rain tree — an ornamental tree, Koelreuteria paniculata, of the soapberry family, native to China and adjacent areas, having pinnate leaves, large clusters of fragrant yellow flowers, and inflated pods containing black seeds used as beads.
- goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
- great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- greater antilles — See under Antilles.
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- herpes genitalis — genital herpes.